Each day in California an estimated 1.5 billion gallons (5.7 billion liters) of treated water are dumped into the ocean – that’s more than the amount of water needed to fill 2,270 Olympic-sized swimming pools. It’s the water that’s collected from the sinks, bathrooms and laundries in your home and delivered to municipal wastewater treatment […]
State officials recently eased the reins on local water agencies when it comes to the drought mandate. While the State Water Resources Control Board has decided to allow agencies like the Coachella Valley Water District – the desert’s largest – to decide for themselves how to conserve, it is imperative that regulators maintain a watchful […]
Nervous investors, concerned about their nest eggs, will check the financial markets. Is the New York Stock Exchange up? What direction is the NASDAQ moving? For people living in the American Southwest, water levels in reservoirs play the same role. And Lake Mead is the blue chip, the biggest, most consequential, most widely watched piece […]
Legislation to prevent ongoing drinking water contamination like that seen in Flint, Mich., from harming families in disadvantaged communities throughout California was approved Monday on a 4-2 vote by the Senate Appropriations Committee. The bill will be heard next by the full Senate. Senate Bill 1318, authored by state Sen. Lois Wolk, D-Davis, would help protect hundreds […]
Wedged between Arizona and Utah, less than 20 miles up river from the Grand Canyon, a soaring concrete wall nearly the height of two football fields blocks the flow of the Colorado River. There, at Glen Canyon Dam, the river is turned back on itself, drowning more than 200 miles of plasma-red gorges and replacing […]
If item number one on your summer to-do list is to witness the booming waterfalls of Yosemite National Park, you’re in for a treat. Water levels appear to have rebounded from four years of drought and we’re now in a window of peak waterfall conditions. United States Geological Survey numbers indicate water under the Pohono […]
Recycled Water Key to California’s Water Security
/in California and the U.S. /by Mike Lee /Water Deeply (New York)by Kirsten JamesEach day in California an estimated 1.5 billion gallons (5.7 billion liters) of treated water are dumped into the ocean – that’s more than the amount of water needed to fill 2,270 Olympic-sized swimming pools. It’s the water that’s collected from the sinks, bathrooms and laundries in your home and delivered to municipal wastewater treatment […]
OPINION: State must remain watchful after easing drought rules
/in California and the U.S. /by Mike Lee /The Desert SunState officials recently eased the reins on local water agencies when it comes to the drought mandate. While the State Water Resources Control Board has decided to allow agencies like the Coachella Valley Water District – the desert’s largest – to decide for themselves how to conserve, it is imperative that regulators maintain a watchful […]
Lake Mead Record Low Reflects Changing American West
/in California and the U.S. /by Mike Lee /Circle of Blue (Traverse City, Mich.) by Brett WaltonNervous investors, concerned about their nest eggs, will check the financial markets. Is the New York Stock Exchange up? What direction is the NASDAQ moving? For people living in the American Southwest, water levels in reservoirs play the same role. And Lake Mead is the blue chip, the biggest, most consequential, most widely watched piece […]
Clean Drinking Water Bill Advances
/in California and the U.S. /by Mike Lee /Davis EnterpriseLegislation to prevent ongoing drinking water contamination like that seen in Flint, Mich., from harming families in disadvantaged communities throughout California was approved Monday on a 4-2 vote by the Senate Appropriations Committee. The bill will be heard next by the full Senate. Senate Bill 1318, authored by state Sen. Lois Wolk, D-Davis, would help protect hundreds […]
How the Water Crisis in the West Renewed the Debate About the Effectiveness of Major Dams
/in California and the U.S. /by Mike Lee /Truthdig (Santa Monica) by Abrahm LustgartenWedged between Arizona and Utah, less than 20 miles up river from the Grand Canyon, a soaring concrete wall nearly the height of two football fields blocks the flow of the Colorado River. There, at Glen Canyon Dam, the river is turned back on itself, drowning more than 200 miles of plasma-red gorges and replacing […]
Yosemite Waterfalls Roaring Following Four Years of Drought
/in California and the U.S. /by Mike Lee /SFGate (San Francisco)by Bill DisbrowIf item number one on your summer to-do list is to witness the booming waterfalls of Yosemite National Park, you’re in for a treat. Water levels appear to have rebounded from four years of drought and we’re now in a window of peak waterfall conditions. United States Geological Survey numbers indicate water under the Pohono […]